By Naseer Ahmad Salehi in TOLOnews Online, April 09, 2023 at 7:36 PMThe selling of music cassettes and foreign drama series have been banned by the department of Vice and Virtue in the western province of Herat. The officials said that the cassettes and drama series were non-Islamic materials and thus they prevented them from being sold. “There were things that in contradiction with Islam such as women without Hijab and other things. Thus they…
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By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:20 PMTurkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a press conference on Friday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov that he will continue to interact with Kabul without recognizing the current Afghan government. Addressing the conference, Cavusoglu criticized the Islamic Emirate’s policy toward women and said that the recent orders issued by the current government are unacceptable. “We discussed the situation in Afghanistan during today’s meeting.…
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Apr 8, 2023 at 7:18 PMThe fourth foreign minister’s meeting of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on April 13, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday. According to TASS, the participants of this meeting will discuss the fight against narcotics production and the activities of terrorist groups in Afghanistan. “The fourth ministerial conference of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries (with the participation of Russia, China, Iran,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 06, 2023Foreign Secretary of Nepal Bharat Raj Paudyal called on Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on Thursday. A press release issued by the Embassy of Nepal in Beijing following the meeting stated that the two sides discussed the matters related to strengthening the bilateral relations and cooperation between the two nations. “During the meeting, matters related to strengthening the longstanding…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, April 05, 2023 at 11:07 PMThe Central Bank of Afghanistan got access to the $1.8 billion in foreign assets, the officials said on Wednesday, adding that the negotiations with the international institutions have been conducted regarding unfreezing of Afghan assets. Speaking at a press conference of annual activities of Da Afghanistan Bank, Mohammad Abas Samih, marketing operation director of the Central Bank, said that more than $9 billion of…
report in The Himalayan Times, Apr 4, 2023Nepal largely depends on technical human resources from foreign countries for the implementation of big projects. According to official data, skilled human resources required for various large projects here are hired from other countries. The Department of Labour and Occupational Safety said workforce from around 100 countries in the world are currently engaged in various projects in Nepal and the Chinese make up the highest portion. Likewise, workers…
Report in The Kathmandu Post ONLINE, March 26, 2023Senior officials from Nepal and China are meeting this week in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, aiming to facilitate bilateral trade and commerce. This is the first meeting of the joint mechanism set up in August last year during the official visit of then foreign minister Narayan Khadka to Qingdao, China. A statement issued after the visit had said the two foreign ministers decided…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, March 25,2023 at 9:58 PMThe Republican chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday gave the State Department until Monday to produce documents related to the August 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan or face a subpoena. “I have the subpoena. it’s right here. And I’m prepared to serve this. We had discussions and I think as a federal prosecutor you want to work things out…
AFP report in Daily Mirror online, 21 March 2023Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking a 10-year moratorium on its foreign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said yesterday on the eve of a desperately needed US $ 2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. Wickremesinghe’s office quoted him as saying the widely expected IMF rescue “will only give us a breathing space where they will say we are no longer bankrupt”. “All the money we have to…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Mar 12, 2023 at 7:28 PMThe foreign ministers of Iran and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan and stressed the need to cooperate as neighbors to strengthen the country. The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Baxtiyor Saidov, traveled to Iran to meet with the country’s officials, including his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. A statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran said that the two sides called for cooperation for…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, March 11th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Talha Saeed, son of the chief of banned outfit Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed, has approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking directions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to block an Indian move to impose travel and financial restrictions on him. He also annexed a letter of the Indian home ministry, sent to the United Nations, asking for sanctions against Mr Saeed for being the head of…